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The association between father's social class and adult obesity is not explained by educational attainment and an unhealthy lifestyle in adulthood

Alexandros HeraclidesDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UKEur J Epidemiol 23:573-9. 2008

..To investigate the effect of father's social class on central and general obesity in adulthood. To test the role of educational attainment and adult health behaviours as mediators in this association...

..Such studies often rely on self-reported stroke events, which are best validated with external medical evidence. The aim of this paper is to compare the information on incident non-fatal stroke events arising from different sources...

Social epidemiology and Eastern Wisdom

Eric BrunnerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United KingdomJ Epidemiol 22:291-4. 2012

..Exploring and debating commonalities and differences in the determinants of health in Oriental and Occidental cultures could offer fresh inspiration and insight for the next phase of social epidemiology in both regions...

Comparison of physical, public and human assets as determinants of socioeconomic inequalities in contraceptive use in Colombia - moving beyond the household wealth index

..The association between socioeconomic position in middle age and risk of subsequent, short-term weight gain is unknown. We therefore assessed this association in a prospective population based cohort study in Norfolk, UK...

Social inequality in walking speed in early old age in the Whitehall II study

Eric BrunnerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UKJ Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:1082-9. 2009

..We investigated social inequalities in walking speed in early old age...

Relation between blood glucose and coronary mortality over 33 years in the Whitehall Study

Eric J BrunnerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UKDiabetes Care 29:26-31. 2006

..We examined the prospective relation of 2-h postload blood glucose (2hBG) with coronary and other major causes of mortality over 33 years...

Biology and health inequality

Eric BrunnerDepartmentof Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United KingdomPLoS Biol 5:e267. 2007

..To examine the impact of -174G>C and -572G>C variants in the promoter region of the IL6 gene, and their interactions with social position, on interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels in the Whitehall II cohort...

Physical activity patterns over 10 years in relation to body mass index and waist circumference: the Whitehall II cohort study

M HamerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UKObesity (Silver Spring) 21:E755-61. 2013

..Physical activity patterns over 10-years in relation to changes in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were examined...

Incidence and prognosis of angina pectoris in South Asians and Whites: 18 years of follow-up over seven phases in the Whitehall-II prospective cohort study

..As individual food items are not consumed in isolation, we examined the association between dietary patterns and cognitive function, with special attention to the role of education in this association...

Socioeconomic gradient in body size and obesity among women: the role of dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger in the Whitehall II study

J DykesDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UKInt J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:262-8. 2004

..To examine the associations between three psychological eating behaviour variables--restraint, hunger and disinhibition--and body weight and size, and to assess their explanatory power for the employment grade gradients in body measurement...

Sarah J LewisInternational Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UKInt J Epidemiol 33:962-70. 2004

..Such studies are based on two assumptions; (a) initial relative allele frequencies in the different age cohorts are similar, and (b) the risk of mortality conferred by genotypes does not depend on year of birth...

..In this study, we test the hypothesis that physical activity earlier in the life course preserves high physical function over an extended period of time, before the onset of major age-related declines in physical function...

..To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism...

..23, 1.12), nor with the incidence of obesity (odds ratio(adjusted) = 1.05, 95% CI: 0.60, 1.82). There is no temporal relation between short duration of sleep and future changes in measures of body weight and central adiposity...

Gender-specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension: the Whitehall II Study